Happy New Year everyone. I actually just got back home from doing a New Years service that ended at 12:01 am. I hope that everyone gets a chance to have a...
A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more. MONDAY, January 1st, 2007 -- TO MY FRIENDS -- Hooray for the...
I agree wholeheartedly with Gaydave and Julia. Gary ... betray my own ... proof, so impress members when you do meet them that they will focus on how you are...
Hello: I went to new Year's Gongyo at our community center this morning...about 12 new members received the Gohonzon, and things were generally quite agreeable...
We really wanted to get to our New Year's Gongyo, but our car is still in the shop. We called around this week and found out that everyone else who was going...
Hey there, Back here in Lincoln, we were taught to have compassion for Nikken, and we did chant for his happiness and health--I still do think about him &...
I do want to say something, I hope you guys find this pretty funny. In my area, we're taught that we should chant for whatever is in our heart, for whatever...
Hi TJ, Thanks for sharing that. I am really glad that your chanting worked out that way. In fact, I kind of hope/believe that daimoku practice does that for a...
Thanks Mike. HNY to every one too. Time to roll up the sleeves and get to work after a less than adorably memorable year. ... ended at 12:01 am. ... ...
Nichiren's Problematic Works Sueki Fumihiko: http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/548.pdf Quotations: "... there are works in the Nichiren...
... Hi Jerry, I too have seen the most actual in my life when I've actively worked to follow the teachings of Nichiren and when I'm actively engaged in helping...
(top post) Garsh, Bill, that's so encouraging! I'm struggling with that, too - I don't want to begrudge any efforts at all, but I also don't want to do...
Happy New Year, TJ! I think what you are saying here is very important. IF we really open up to Gohonzon, if we can be fully real, fully what we are in front...
We had two meetings yesterday and both of them were filled, with some people standing at the back. Both had performances by a recently formed chorus, the Taiko...
Happy New Year to all !! Dave you crack me up....our new years gongyo was a bit lame...I was disappointed but we did have this band play and they woke the...
January 1st - 7th, 2007 -- WORDS OF THE WEEK -- What we achieve in this one year will determine our future for eternity. Just like the dynamic sun beginning to...
You were lucky not to have the video, in my opinion. I definitely thought it was the low spot in the meeting we had. Did anybody else see it? It was PI...
I saw the video and I was also struck by how adamant he was....but I assumed that he was directing his comments to the newly appointed Soka Gakkai leaders. I...
I just got the information that the website below shows the most recent SGI Introductory DVD in which quite a few S. Ohio Area members appear. Thank you. ...
Kathy: I did not attend the New Year's meeting, and did not see the video. Please tell, what is PI's version of mentor/disciple relationship? Did he actually...
Ashley I don't think its as explicit as denotions for insufficient mentor veneration, but just the endless dreary mentions of the m/d relationship and a lot of...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Suppose for a minute that Ikeda is preparing to make a strong stand on some controversial issues. I think he would want...
Happy New Year to everyone. Hope that this year will be better for everyone. I was online browsing different religions that would fit what I am about and can...
Hello all, First, Happy New Year. Today I've told Byrd in a independent mail to her that the WND vol.2 is already available in the SGI center shop at Zeist,The...
happy new year to y9ou Ronda. Do you or anyone else in the group know a member in Nashville, GA or Valdosta, GA? Would appreciate an answer Tom Ronda Nicolay...
-(top post)- I joined the SGI in Seattle on New Years day only after many years reading about general Buddhism and two plus years reading about Nichiren...
Hi Kathy: The direction this is going is quite astounding. I'm certainly not an expert on the Gosho by any stretch, but does Nichiren ever really talk about...
This is quite scary. Like everything else in life, people are going to choose what looks like the most inviting with the best pay-off, regardless of what...
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